Dr Patricia ( Trisha ) Pender

Biography

Patricia Pender is a Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Palgrave 2012) and the co-editor, with Sarah C. E. Ross and Rosalind Smith, of Early Modern Women and the Apparatus of Authorship, a special issue of Parergon (December, 2012). She has previously published essays on Anne Askew, Mary Sidney, and Anne Bradstreet in journals such as Women’s Writing, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and Huntington Library Quarterly and currently coordinates, with Rosalind Smith, a three-year Australian Research Council project on the Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing (2012-2014)

Patricia has active research interests in early modern literature, feminist literary history and theory, and contemporary popular culture. In addition to her early modern scholarship, she has published a number of essays on the cult television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is currently working on a monograph on Buffy and Contemporary Feminism (forthcoming with I.B. Tauris).

Qualifications

• PhD, Stanford University, 2004

Research

Research keywords

• Early modern literature and culture
• Feminist theory
• Gender and popular culture
• Women writers 1500-1800

Research expertise

Patricia Pender is a Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Palgrave 2012) and the co-editor, with Sarah C. E. Ross and Rosalind Smith, of Early Modern Women and the Apparatus of Authorship, a special issue of Parergon (December, 2012). She has previously published essays on Anne Askew, Mary Sidney, and Anne Bradstreet in journals such as Women’s Writing, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and Huntington Library Quarterly and currently coordinates, with Rosalind Smith, a three-year Australian Research Council project on the Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing (2012-2014)

Patricia has active research interests in early modern literature, feminist literary history and theory, and contemporary popular culture. In addition to her early modern scholarship, she has published a number of essays on the cult television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is currently working on a monograph on Buffy and Contemporary Feminism (forthcoming with I.B. Tauris).

Fields of Research

Centres and Groups

Centre

• Humanities Research Institute

Teaching

Teaching keywords

• Australian popular culture
• Early modern literature and culture
• Literature and adaptation
• Women's literary history

Teaching interests

Courses Taught

• Early Modern Women's Writing
• Seventeenth Century Literature
• Women in Literature: Jane Austin and Adaptation
• Bibliomania: Books that Transform You
• Reacting to the Past: Conflict and Revolution in Early Modern Europe
• Critical Thinking: Reading Popular Culture
• Girls on Film: Cultural Studies in Third Wave Feminism
• Men and Masculinities
• Clueless and the Classics: Popular Culture and Literary Tradition

Teaching interests

• Early modern literature and culture
• Women writers 1500-1800
• Feminist literary history and theory
• Early modern book history
• The history and theory of rhetoric
• Canon formation
• Poetry (particularly the Sidney circle)
• Prose (particularly the discourse of discovery)
• Intersections of genre and gender
• Feminist cultural studies
• Gender and popular culture
• Gender and popular culture
• Cinema studies
• "Girls on Film"
• Representations of girls and girlhood
• Contemporary feminist theory
• "Third wave" feminism